Has religion done you any harm?

I was brought up in a strict christian household. In hind-sight I don't think it was a good thing to be told that if I don't believe I'll burn in an eternal pit of fire from as young as I can remember. Please share your experience with religion and explain why it was bad, or maybe not that bad, and what pushed you to stop believing in it.

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By the way, ever hear of a little thing called a 'rubber'? It takes care of all your medical objections and has been around for decades. I've already said in another reply that I don't believe you're an atheist, or if you are you're a bigot and shouldn't be on this site which doesn't allow you to say the things you are saying. You read the rules and agreed to them when you signed up but apparently you don't respect your own word, or don't care that you've given it to others. Sad.

Composer: This discussion has degenerated to the toilet a little too deeply for my liking. You stated your view and I mine. Let's leave it at that. We all see the world in different ways.

The reason I defended gays against your nasty remark is that I feel they contributed greatly to humanity throughout history and continue to do so. I honestly feel they don't deserve to be thought of as perverted or "sicko."

In case you think I was avoiding answering you, I just think that "composing" lines like this:

"to stick their dinkies in a receptacle that discharges..."

is unworthy of response. It's too juvenile. So please try to get your mind out of the toilet and perhaps we can have an intelligent discusssion.

Composer: This discussion has degenerated to the toilet a little too deeply for my liking. You stated your view and I mine. Let's leave it at that. We all see the world in different ways.

Me: I am glad you acknowledge homosexuals ' have fun ' in literal toilets albe they living flesh ones! Let's leave it at that you say, ok, because you say so that must be that? (NOT!)

You: The reason I defended gays against your nasty remark is that I feel they contributed greatly to humanity throughout history and continue to do so.

Me: My remarks were truthful so why do you degrade truth as being nasty?

I am certain humanity would survive a great deal better without them and their sick practices! Perhaps you could tell the children raped by paedophiles and homosexual priests for starters and see if they share your stupidity!

You: I honestly feel they don't deserve to be thought of as perverted or "sicko."

Me: The facts disagree!

You: In case you think I was avoiding answering you, I just think that "composing" lines like this: "to stick their dinkies in a receptacle that discharges..." is unworthy of response.

Me: How would you allegedly better explain it?

You: It's too juvenile. So please try to get your mind out of the toilet and perhaps we can have an intelligent discusssion.

Me: It is precisely because my mind isn't in the toilet and I am doing what I can to get others to think less about penetrating toilets with their tallywhackers, but conversely, YOURS IS and your comments support and encourage others spending even more time in human toilets/backsides, for fun I recall you said?

You: . . . . perhaps we can have an intelligent discusssion.

Me: You have the bizarre notion that opposing me that wishes to reduce anal sex and reduce diseases cause by it as opposed to YOU that encourages anal sex and associated diseases is you being ' intelligent? '.

Wake up and smell the coffee laddie! Your comments only incite deviant practices!

The discussion is "has religion done you any harm?", not "anal sex is wrong". I don't know how you ended up with this line of discussion. How old are you? You sound like a younger person still working with Christian hang-ups. Are you truly atheist? Yours is all opinion with no evidence.

You say "probably most doctors" wouldn't approve of anal sex, "sexual diseases probably were caused by someone sticking their dingus in an anus".

Come on! You have no idea! You're saying anything to support your opinion! I can only think you are doing this as a joke to get people wound up, or you're actually a Christian trying to 'inform' people of the bible view of sex, or that you're simply a bigot.

Cool it with the personal insults and pejoratives, or I'm not going to respond. You know, my book deals with Richard Dawkins Selfish Gene theory and I can notice that you have conspicuous hawk (bully) genes. I feel sorry for anyone that might find themselves under your control or authority—if you have any, which I doubt.

Consider your argumentation here:

"Perhaps you could tell the children raped by paedophiles and homosexual priests for starters and see if they share your stupidity!"

As far-fetched as the point is, you still find a way to interject a personal slur. I could counterargue this assertion by stating that almost all of the atrocities and horrors of history and contemporarily have been committed by heterosexuals. Jails are full of them. So, by your logic, we should denounce and prohibit straight sex?

With respect to the above, I believe that sexual repression has a lot more to do with causing the phenomenon than the mere fact that homosexuality exists—especially in the case of the priests.

Richard, this guy shouldn't even be on this site. He's likely a theist anyway just wanting to rant at atheists. He's breaking the website's Rule 3, B where you're not supposed to down anybody due to race, ethnicity, sexual preference, etc. I've already reported him to the site administrator. Hopefully he'll be blocked soon.

Thanks, Kasey. There is something about him that is particularly irksome. Must be his offended Christian upbringing. lol

Reminds me of an old Kevin Spacey movie call American Beauty. A retired marine officer was rigorously anti-gay throughout the whole movie really busting everybody's balls, you know, with his authoritative "command presence." But at the end he winds up trying to kiss Spacey who calmly says, "no, I'm sorry, you got me wrong." And the old tough-guy, hard-ass starts crying his eyes out like a baby.